The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 13, 1926, Page 1

tured at Buffalo. WRATHER FORECAST Unsettled with possibly showers tonight or Tuesdi Cool oler, HEARING ON GRAIN RATE CUT BEGINS}: " Minneapolis “Grain and Rail- road Interests Defend Six-cent Reduction N. D. IS REPRESENTED — \ # Civic Groups of Bismarck and Other Cities Ask’ New Rate Be Made Effective Minneapolis, Sept. 18—C)—A hear- ing was started before the Interstate Commerce Commission here today at, which its railreads and grain and milling interests came to the defense 0 of the six cents reduction in all-rail rates on grain and flour to : the east as proposed by the Minneap- olis and St. Louis, and Soo Line rail- ways. During the hearing, which is ex- pected to continue several days, the two railroads will present evidence and arguments to show why they should be allowed to make the rate cut, which they planned to reduce the that has existed for y st northwest grain, milled in transit and shipped all-rail to the seaboard and New England, and in favor of grain shipped from Duluth, via the Great Lakes and manufac- Rail Boards Represented Among the groups to present evi- dence are the Minneapoils Traffic as- sociation, representing the grain. milling and other milling interests of Minneapolts, and the state railroad ions of the four sprin wheat innesota, North South Dakota and Montana. Commercial and civic groups of im- portant grain belt towns, including Minot, Jamestown, Mandan, Valley, City and Bismarck, have intervened (Continued on page three.) CRIME COSTS MONEY. WEALTH IN THE SEA. ARE YOU RESILIENT? + WE HAVE SLUMPED. By Arthur Brisbane. (Copyright, 1926.) Louis Siebold, says crime costs the United ee 10,000 million dollars a year, billions that criminals steal, ou billions spent insurance inst theft, prisons, criminal courts, ete. Justice Victor J. Dowling of New York attributed our crime wave to the “wreckage of the war,” which weecks men pusileally and morally. Young men were told that killing somebody you never saw before across the ocean is a noble deed. A certain number, feeble minded, cen- cluded that if it is all right to kill for Uncle Sam it's all right to kill) jir own pocketbool Tt will take some time to get aver that. Everything depen and your cause. Farmer Holl Pennsylvania, fined $2, said it was unjust. He would never pay, killed a sheriff and his deputy sent €o get id was shot to death after- ward. His aid “God would pre- tect him.” nm your periea, Thirteen hundred years ago Wil- liam a Swiss farmer ght unjustly treated th jit moverner, * C ni syed ‘bow pole Fel ul Killed Gessler after shoot: and he is Mrs. Koppel lost - $8, bracelet swimming in Mayes, swimming teacher, dived and ie it. e hero of Switzerland. uable rin, it in a grees stomach. Kvery Se man boy learn: poem al Ee stand auf ete, F A _saed ald sie in the he, snelens it rucifix overbi pig Pg con. 4 hen he landed the beach a crab came out of the ter handed the crucifix to him. — Pe interesting. be pat pathing. ey he 4 ten submarines are perfected. nt prospec- tor is searchii the of the ocean through ae the bottom of a s cially’ built submarine, which recent- ly, traveled from Holland to San ‘ranciseo, ought. Where the ocean ean is now, lan once was. ere oeean E a the i wore at tho Botton of the sen once i is In futore he'll explore the ocean's, deep valleys by submarine. = Wonderful is resiliency in oe or material. If you bounce ‘Pp sed nothi are sauces p Psd 1 bea i ‘kies i kien, ra on police, | ple from his boy's head,|Jy, ic Tyrant of Samos logt his val-| the overboard. His took found] Che: com-lin th HE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | Awan | BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1926 | HUNDREDS MADE HOMELESS BY KANSAS FLOODS © CHAPTER 1 honey, you did wake me up,” Mrs, Lane lowered her iy » mid- her méther confessed, in her patient, dle-aged body into her chair with » complainine voice, but it was curious- The family paid no atten- ly different, charged as it was with tion, Mother," or “Mom,” or a doting love for the beautiful girl ey,” as she was variously called; who was bending -toward her so y her children, always groaned when’ solicitously. “But I knew. it would| at down or pulled herself up worty you, if 1 let on, so just kept | of chairs, and they were coh m, + closed, Played ‘possum on} a T never slept a wink all night! “Where's Cherry, Faith? She'll ba! And my head’s just splitting this late: for work, You shouldn't let! morning. I declare, life don’t seem her oversleep so often.” Mrs, Lane| worth living, when Sou're sick all spoke with the complaining, mar-jthe time and poor as a chure' tyred voice of the chronic invalid. [inoue “I called her forty. minutes “Well, Mother, such is life!" Mr. ago.” Faith Lane deposited a plat-| Lane pushed back hix chair, drop- ter of fried and bacon upon the ping the sprawled sheets of his paper big round tabi a and wine a cling-| to the floor. ing strand of straight, dark bro hair from het parinirinc lee wil the back of a work-marked hand. “{ really haven't time to keep going | back to her room to see if she’s up.” In her la:ge, wistful brown eyes—-her one youd ieature, the family said— there was a fiash of resentment. “Don't speak to your mother in that tone of voice, Faith!’ Mrs.! Lane reproved her automatically, “nat new bungalow apron looks real nice on you, Faith. That pink kinda! livens up that sallow skin of yours./ in’t it sorta short, though?” Her critical eyes swept the tall, splen-' did figure of her twenty-year-old daughter. Too bad that Faith wasn't | pretty like Cherry! “No, it's mot teo short,” Faith) “It's three inches below my and Cherry wears hers so the knee cap shows. She made me short- he that new green organdy I made er—" “Now, Faith, there you go! You can’t say a kind word for poor little} ; Cherry! Cherry can wear knee dresses—she’s such a tiny jdget. That pale green organdy sure sets off her coppery curls, doesn’t it Joy, don’t take so much butter! With butter sixty cents a pound, it does seem to me—Jim, for heaven's sake,| g 's just enterprise on watch what you're doing! You can’t| his part that makes hime land a Lane struck the table sharply her clenched hand, “That's a!l_ you ever say—well, sach is I'fc ch | is life e mimicked bitter sick and tired of the sounds of the words! If you hid more it-up- git to you, sue! ; the Lane famil tate! Make rv in a low voice, as if he xelude th> children t quarrel, to land that | Two six-room- addy,” Cherry said, the musical sweetness of her voice edged slightly with contempt you'd quit working on the ‘obs vourself. I tell end the fellows I go with r ix a—a construction contractor, and then] % overalls, carpenter- and drew the plat. mn and eggs toward a carpenter, and a | Admission Made |e having aharea “| Paper office. LATEST STORY IN M’PHERSON CASE A FAKE Woman Confesses She Made ’ Up Tale About Being at . Carmel With Ormiston WAS TO RECEIVE $5,000 in Sworm Statement, Los Angeles _ Newspaper States Los Angeles, Sept. 13.—(#)—The Examiner in a copyrighted story to: ys Mrs, Lorraine Wise Don rf Seilaff, $18 a week has confessed that her ry seaside Phvvis ister, the anony- and Kenneth G. former Angelus Temple res: at Carmel with a mous “Miss X, Ormiston, *| radio operator, was a fake for which she was to receive $5,000 from Aimee Semple McPhreson, the evangelist. Some time after Mrs. McPherson reappeared, witnesses were found at Carmel, Calif; who said Opmiston had occupied a cottage at Carmel, a part of the time that the evangelist wus missing, with a woman who looked like Mrs. McPherson. The admission was made in a sworn statement. The alleged confession climaxed a dramatic meeting between Mrs. Seil- aff and her twin sister, Mrs. Virla rept of Oakland, and it is id to have been made at the request of the latter. They met in the news- Mrs. Seilaff announced her intention] MINOT, N. of “making a clean breast of the] ROAM. whole thing.” She dictated her| — statement. Mrs. Seilaff stated she was ap- proached in San Francisco about July: read the paper and stir your coffee} small bit of contracting now and at the same time, without slopping; then. I hope you get the Hathaway |‘ it all over the tablecloth! Oh, dear! eon:rnct, Dad. What’s your bid?” This house always looks like ‘| x thousand, three hundred and cyclone had struck it!” fifly,” her father answered, straigh- Jim Lane lowered his paper and|tening his bent shoulders and look- smiled a dim, uncertain smile at his) ing down at her with boundless pride wife, his brown eyes twinkling at} and affection. “Your figgerin’ help-| her through steel-rimmed spectacles;|ed me a lot. Ain't. so good at fig- ‘All right, Martha. Don’t upset your| gers myself. But I ‘think. Halloran ‘digestion. Take things a little easier,| ig going to viadenbl Yone-ereehad as honey.” His thick-knuckled,. broken:| a a doy's hind leg, Halloran is. He'll Nafted hand reached ‘Yor the epeon{ get the job at the lowest bid, then with which Joy, his youngest Eira ring in a bunch of extras. ter—nine-going-on-ten—was scooy how hi ts away i jinto the platter. “Don't be ea fo is sun; nyellowed straw hat greedy, Chi n-little. Only one egg apiece, Junior and Cherry have to eat yet, you know. Faith, honey, where's Junior?” PT wish you wouldn't call me Jun- pal Dad.” The tall, very thin, good- looking boy paused to straighten his jnew dark blue, polka-dotted tie at jthe murky mirror of the sideboard.! carry me for material: iosh! I’m twenty-one! I'm not a'go on my note at the bank for aye The fellows call me tag: and foll and incidental expenses,” he told jon’t see why you have to Junior, her, his brightening with hope. me all ‘the time, as if I was three; “Might have a meat pie for dinner years old! Hey, Faith! Aintcha got| tonight, honey, if you ain't got |i hot toast! “This stuff’s as cold as! nothing else planned. I've asked {a gold-digger’s heart.” Hathaway to drop in for supper. | “Your name ian’t ‘Long,’ Might help me to land the contract, {or Jimmy, if that suits you better,” if you fed him good. Decent young ‘his futher answered reasonably.| chap, Bob Hathaway. I've “Looks to me like you'd be dj tootin’. your cookin’ up to him, of being called ‘Long’ Lane— Patth, so do your durnedest!” sc * long lane that has no turn- “I ‘wish you wouldn't use such ing, laughed shrilly. “That's! language in front of the children, ee tl ey got his re me, Pop.| Jim,” Mrs. Lane complained wear- He’s about the lon; lane in the| ily, as she scraped butter upon her world, I guess. Ail t a sill fourth piece of toast and reached name—Lane? Me—Joy Lane! All) for the jam pot. kids tease me-—call me Giggly Joy Lane giggled. “Durnede: *! And Cherry Lane—the kids! That’s an awful old-fashioned that’s a street in New York—"| word! You ought to hear Long ‘Cherry’s name is Charity, I'd sg off, Mom—damn 'n he—” thank you to remember!” her mother] “Joy, leave the table this minute!” interrupted sharply. “Faith, Hope,’ Her mother half rose from her chair, est eg on the sideboard. ‘How will you swing that big a deal, Dad?” Faith asked, her eyes wistfully following his stooped, old: slowly toward the living room door. Dear Dad! ! ‘The lumber yard's willing to and Pa will before-its-time figure as he walked! FARMER-LABOR 30, by, a man who gave his name ag ” and who asked her she would come to Los Angeles _ “some work which would pay good nd would only take a few. Sent Telegram She said the man could give her only a few details, but informed her that the work offered was in connec- tion with the MePherson case. She}. stated that she was instructed ‘to send » telegram to Distriet Attorney Asn Keyes at Los Angeles, declaring that her sister, who was in the east, had been with Ormizton at Carmel and that she had wired the er to return immediately. The same day ey received a wire from San Francisco’ signed “Belle Owens.” Mrs, Seilaff said she remained in Los Angeles two days during which time she went to | e temple “quite 1k with Mrs. cision Within Month— Hearing Held Saturday * Decisjon in the case of the Farm-! er-Laborites who Saturday presented o the ssupréme court their conten- jon that they ‘should be given a ping on the general election ballot in November, probably will be made | withi month, members of the fisaichs ¢ indicated following the hearing. Nuchols, attorney for C. W. Re rt, complainant, in a petition asking that the court order Secretary of State Byrne to place his name on the ballot Farmer-Labor can- didate for congress in the second istrict, contended that the law re- :power of the electors. The alterna |tive provision of the law whch re- quires a candidate to get three per cent of the vote cast for his party pandiaane for the s: me, office at the ees Nochote's alee } in, toes mol ap- ‘ ply, Nuchola gaid, since the Farmer- nois- University Laborites had no congressional can- didate in the second distritt at the Urbana, Il., Sept, 13—()—Ap-| last election. pointment of Judge Sveinbjorn John-' Attorney General George Shafer, son, North Dakota supreme court, defending the action for Secretary of justice, as legal counsel for the Uni-; State Byrne, contended that the Will Succeed Ju Judge Harker! as Law Professor at Illi- Charity! I thought they was lovely| then sank back with a groan. “Oh, names, But with Hope dead—God (Continued on page 38.) rest her blessed little soul!-- —___—_______—_—_—_e and Charity calling herself Cherry—" e|her v. aailed off, dropped to a Weather Report . iF —— Weather conditic | mainor note of dissatisfaction Bee lie i with life, with every- kota Rants for the at 8 a, m. today: fother, th haven't _nick- ” Faith smiled at her fond- Zanceratare at yesterday at naa mother’s plate with fragrant, steaming hot coffee, and handed her| High: brother a plate of thin, crisp toast iether OE st treMeh Faith's Highest wind velocity. Temps. 2 ba hone thats 6: nod Precipitation in inches r State of We qo nit be of her small to the mirror, Cloudy P. Clay. Cloudy Cloudy Clear Cloudy b Cloudy P. Cldy. Rain i ot for hes hours an at 7.0. ty. today, local time. bout _quittit For Bi Pear id. vicinity: Un. Beam out quittin; 7 Bismarck an 2 fegause e boss ay | with 708 settled with possibly ond showers vm wks xi a tonight or Tyester. ‘ooler Tues- ~ luggy’ ial im, picking gi ali a Z with yt ple na hare and bowels oF He} Ib acral ly across no- hetasit dows, scious: bealge possi a toe wake you Fy anu : And i 80 eady *o kiss fF You we ppg to Four orebead, like. thie! her | Bi ok ME her image, crinkling| her short nose, and Ber topes ee with appreciation of oh don’t lay off me, tag Pembina ,, TM tell Mugey about Fay Al ‘Aw, shut up! Mind your own! in Better féed your face and or you'll be late, for work and com Se home tonight with a fasnansaasaxsans seamen beeen mp cheek. As the versity~of Illinois and professor of | theory, ahd intent of the law is to law, was announced today. He will bar from the ‘ballot all parties o: succeed Judge 0. A. Harker. candidates ‘who cannot muster as Judge Johnson first represented "any voted as mre required on a Nerth Dakota as attorney general; nominating: petition or three per and later went to the state supreme cent of the vote cast for the same ch. He was counsel in the fam- | office at the preceding eleetion. ous case of North Dakota vs. Minne- position of the Reichert case, sota, involving the right of Minne- it'is believed, will determine whether sota to construct a drainage system or not other FarmerLabor can, to the damage of citizens of North, dates for state and national office, Dakota. none of ‘whom received the required RESIGNATION I8 EXPECTED SHORTLY Sveinbjorn Johnson, associate jus- tice of the supreme court, had not presented his resignation to Gover- nor A. G. Sorlie ‘this morning, though it was indicated that persion ments may be expected short!; y. Johnson's intention to resign hus been common knowl here for; some time. Action has been deferred, it is said, in an effort to avoid un election to determine who shall fill out the unexpired term which would hend in 1928, District Judge Up G. Burr, Rugby, is known to be « Governor. Sorlie’s choice for appointment if Johnson withholds his resignation until it is too late to present the matter to the voters. Judge Johnson has been in Urbana for the last 10 days but is expected to return here soon to close up his parsenat affairs. ata Based Be: pape court boned will will be fi filled, by ‘istrict court bea who will sit from dey to day, intent of Chief Fastice number of votes, will bring similar ions in an effort to get on the xeneral election ballot. LIGHT VOTE Is PREDICTED AT MAINE POLLS, Results of Election. in New England State Watched By Politicians Portland, Maine, Sept. 13.—)— Maine today is acting as the tradi- tional political barometer. It is hold- tog I biennial state election. ually the amount of the Repub- ee plurality for governor furnishes bas pate = indicated today that Jahn- nies ee argument as to whether it fore- son may present his resignation in nation’s view of a nation- the near i 1» tying we sore al Pode tolcration when it will be eflectve memperativaly light, vote was for the electors to vote ee a ae predicted. leaders conceded cessor. the . total aig probably would be It was indicated at the executive|far below the record set two years that. the of his) bee Ralph O. Brewster, Repub- within £ few] li was elected ‘governor by. = o bel i a" ‘A governor, state auditor, four eanapeamen. @ legislature and coun- PPodas’s Games in || Bromese. vention ‘resection’ ana be» ot Games in || user myer rain Héceenah Anetta Where Their An:e PARTY STATUS NOT SETTLED, Supreme Court Will Give De- joules minimum of 300 votes for a candidate is unconstitutional be- feause it tends to abbreviate c . | of presi The sisters kissed, and| PART OF THE BUFFALO HERD OF CLARENCE PARKER AT Pa D., ON LAND WHERE THEIR ANCESTORS USED TO PARKER Js SHOWN acting a \ That the Americ teed whether mpion or not, people like a unli¢ked Georges e of the Northern Pacific railroad from the west, according to the N. P. Pullman conductor. ‘The doughty Frenchman who was at one time a contender for cham- pionship honors passed through Biv- marck this morning at 8:54 on board train No. 2. Carpentier was asleep this morning his manager when. the train ed Bismarck, They had both had a hard trip and been beset by throngs of people at every station, who wished to see the near champion, | according to the conductor. NINE STATES HAVE PRIMARY VOTE TUESDAY \ ed For State and Na- tional Offices Washington, Sept. 13.—(#) -Voter: of nine states trudge to the primar- ies tomorrow to express their desire for state and national officers. In Massachusetts, home state of President Coolidge, his personal friend, Senator William M. Buth chairman of the Kepublican nati mmittee, is opposed for renomina- tion by Washington Cook, member of the governor’s council. Cook’s campaign is based on modi- fication of the Volsten@ det, public ownership of rattroudey oil. fields, | and water powgr,, and direct election nts. Former Senutor David ‘Walsh is an outstanding figuri the Democrati More than 260,000 persons quali fied to participate in the Democratic Louisiana primary which is to deter- mine whether win S. Broussard, the incumb#@e, or Jared Y. Saunders, a former governor, is to be elected to the senate. Prohibition and toll bridges have been the principal is- | sues. Senator Broussard ee poe is dry. In Fey gir pri ers saw the culmination of u two-year tor control of the Papen y_ between Senator L. C. Pi running for renominatio ence \. Hamlin, Republican committeeman. Senator Means is the directing head of the state Ku Klux Klan, while Hamlin leads the anti- klan faction of the party. The cam- paign hes been one of personalities without a national issue, In Washington, Senator Wesley L. Jones, chairman of the senate com- merce committee, is opposed for re- momination by @ field of six candi- dates, including Frank E. Hammond, a avor wet, Senator Jones is a dry. ta New York, nine congressional contests were to be d and mem- bers of the sigie legi be voted on. Senator Porter H. Dale was before the voters of Vermont for their ‘In Maryland, 7. Brag ng for the Republi: tative J Hp ah "% he th distetet. Hill has dev Georeea| ‘meat animals. Opposes Hill Senator 0. E. Wheeler | "5 tors Roamed BUFFALORS | ROAM RANCH NEAR MINOT Fence Separates Pure-bred Cattle From Bison on Parker Stock Farm Minot, N. D., Sept. 1 stors ranged the sume lands a century and more. | ago, are being raised on part of the ; large stock farm of Clarence H. Par- k ear this city. a rolling pasture of 700 acres, arker herd of buffalo being mitted to grow until it will tax capacity of the ranch, is only a small —Buffaloes 50 head of cattle, half of which highly valued pure-bred Here- There are also registered Red Polled beef cattle and some pure-bred Percheron horses. 4 The entire ranch is operated sole- ly as a stock-raising venture with only enough crops grown to insure food for the stock. ‘The e 1,200 acres’ under cultivation, more than ,000 acres are meadowland, and the rest is open to the atock for grazitig. Large Harvest Due to the modern irrigation meth- ods, Parker expects to havest about 2,000 tons of hay from the large meadow on the farm. The valley has yielded as high as 2,400 tons of hay of the high-class blue grass variety. Parker. is especially interested -in the rearing of his buffalo herd,- It's | herd today, but he expects to bring it up to more than 200 head winthin two years. arker haw sentimental rea s for’ raising buffalo on his ranch. Wealthy sportsman and hotel owner of Minot, he recalled the days when these ani- mals roamed the very land he* now owns and when they were shot dow! almost to annihilation by Indians white hunters, Forty year: was headquarte: gathering indu: ago, Parker's ranch for a buffalo ba ry of large propor-| tions, asa result of these ruthless {jn slaughters. Small Herd Now Now he wants to bring them back ; to their own, not only as specimens of American’ stock, but as valuable He’ has started with; buffaloes, seven of them males, expects to ha’ 200 in a few yeurs, very oth-| calves will be born er ranch this year, Cows} e the xt The result will be’ un overabundance of bull calves battle for supremacy among them and the exile of the physically weak- er bulls from the her During the summer, the buffalo herd is left out on the ranch with} nly a wire fence keeping them from ; andering. In winter, however, they are placed in more substantial quar- , ters, to keep them from following/ their rdaming inst at $150,000 er year, on the et Parker values his ranch RUMORS G.A.R. WILL DISBAND CALLED FALSE As Long as There. Are Two Living Members, There Will Be an Encampment Minneapolis, in, Sept. 13— Rumors emanating from Des Moines to the effect that the G. A. R. plans to disband during the annual en- campment which begins September 19, were regarded as “utterly ridiculous,’ Saturday by two Minneapolis mem. rs who have always been prominent inthe activities of the organization. Samuel R. Van Sant, former Minne sota governor, who has served as na. tional commander of the G. A. R., and Eli Torrance, one of its most active members, joined Saturday in denying the authenticity of the reports, Both will attend the encampment at Des Moines und attempt to determine the source of the rumor. “So long as there. are two livi: members of the G. A. R., there wil be an annual encampment,” said Mr./ S} Van Sant. “I have heard these re- ports in other years and it seems I that anyone would think moment that members of ion plan to dis! when ite od ior apa is one of leading, comm: cull vote for disband- This he denied. ith a surplus fund whic! ve on hand,” Mr. Van Sant ar after) THREE RIVERS | RISE RAPIDLY AFTER STORMS Many Householders, Taken Unawares, Rescued From Roofs in Row Boats HOUSES WASHED AWAY Telephone Girl Is Heroine, Sticking to Post to Warn Sleeping Villagers Emporia, Kans., Sept. 13.—()— Three persons were known to have lost their lives, hundreds were home- less or marogned in their houses and damage to livestock and buildings was mounting steadily today as flood waters of the Neosho, Cottonwood and Verdigris rivers swept south- eastern Kansas, following rains yea- terday and last night which in some sections approached cloudburst pro- portions. Starting at the head waters of the three rivers, the flood swept sou! east through Emporia, Madison, Br lington and intermediate points, swelling in volume as it came. Water threatened householders fled for their lives. Many, taken unawares, were rescued in row boats from the roofs and second stories of their homes. A large section of the town of Neosho Falls, about 35 miles south- ast of here, was reported virtually inundated at midnight, with some residents forced to the roofs of houses. A banker, who reported the situation to Wichi id he stood in water on the si id floor of a building while telephoning the re- port. City of 8,000 Threatened The section hardest hit apparently included a territory nearly 26 miles wide, starting abous 10 telles seakal here and extending more than 60 miles southeust along the Neosho and Cottonwood valleys, Iola, a town of nearly 8,000 population, was threut ened eurly this morning, ‘the Neosho was reported with the highest point in the history of lola and was rising slowly.» The torrent had not reached the central section of city, but had driven scotes of persons from their homes in the western residential dis- trict. | Rainfall at Neosho Falls broke all records for the storm with 14 inebes. The village of Leroy reported 11 inches. At Florence, seven inches fell. About four inches was reported here and at Burlington, Cottonwood Falls reported six and one-half ches, Junction City reported six inches, Definite records were not reported at Iola but it is estimated that upwards of 10 inches fell there. Livestock Loss Heavy Fourteen miles southeast of Bur- lington, on the Neosho, the towns of Moody and Leroy were hard hit. Dan Braum, county agent for Coffey coun- ty, declared last night that 20 farm 4 were completely washed away neighborhood with heavy loss- , es or livestock, The damage in Burlington was caused when the waters of Rock Creek, cuttiny through the heart of the business section, could not empty ‘fast enough into the Neosho and backed up, inundating the business district and ubout 50 homes. Charles Rodgers, 60, a farmer near Burlington, who served as coun- ty commissioner during ae disas- trous floods here of 1922, ropped dead yesterday when he pom his bedroom window to see the tide idly encroaching on his front steps. ; The heroism of a telephone girl, Mrs. June Chubb, who stuck to her post in spite of the rising waters to spread the alarm, probably saved the lives of many Burlington resi dents who slept unaware of the dan ger. She was rescued in a row: boat from the second story of the telephone exchange. NEOSHO THREATENS NEW TERRITORY TODAY Empo: ens to ‘inundate n itory increase the damage to buildings and the heavy Ii tock 1 s caused yes- terday when flo ters of the Cottonwood, Verdigris and Neosho rivers swept a section of south (Continued on page NEGRO IS HELD AFTER FINDING OF MAN'S BODY St. Paul Man Believed By Po- lice to Be Victim of Hi- jackers’ Quarrel St. Paul, Sept, 13- 13—U)—John ha eg was arrested for Prit- of tion: Goff on the outskirts of St. day, with two bulie The arrest was made after widow told of threats Cony with th finding of fe by body ot § wonaae husband's life in whi | Bi daemons’ 1,